It was a lovely place and meals were accompanied with music from the resident quartet.

Their home is Cork, and they are the resident quartet for RTE.

In 1969, Mr. Menard became the second violinist in the newly formed Vermeer Quartet, the resident quartet at Northern Illinois University, where he was also a full professor of music.

The ensemble also became the resident quartet in the Bay Chamber Concerts summer series in Rockport, Me.

The quartet has appeared at music festivals across the country and is the resident quartet of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

Hosting the Taneyev is the Manhattan String Quartet, which (name notwithstanding) is the resident quartet for the Connecticut State University system and makes its summer home at Music Mountain.

Schuman's mission for the ensemble was that it would champion contemporary music as part of a rounded repertory and that, as Juilliard's resident quartet, it would coach younger chamber ensembles.

The Mendelssohn String Quartet got its start at the Hebrew Arts School in 1979, and has been the resident quartet at the school's Merkin Concert Hall since then.

Extra members can get a signficant discount on tickets to see performances by up and coming pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and Cambridge University's 'resident quartet', the Endellion String Quartet.

The nucleus of all three performances was the Orion String Quartet, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year and has been the society's resident quartet since 1994.